{"id":987525703,"date":"2022-07-08T03:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/saudi-arabia-to-no-longer-bear-treatment-costs-of-covid-19-patients-in-private-sector\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:32:59","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-no-longer-bear-treatment-costs-of-covid-19-patients-in-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/saudi-arabia-to-no-longer-bear-treatment-costs-of-covid-19-patients-in-private-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to no longer bear treatment costs of COVID-19 patients in private sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhaman.co\/about-dhaman\">Council of Health Insurance (Dhaman)<\/a> announced that the <strong>state will no longer bear the treatment costs of COVID-19 patients<\/strong> <strong>in the private sector facilities<\/strong>. Dhaman notified this through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.sa\/en\/Ministry\/MediaCenter\/Publications\/Documents\/Management-of-Pediatric-Patient-with-Suspected-and-Confirmed-Covid-19-Infection.pdf\">circular<\/a> sent to all the approved healthcare service providers and the qualified health insurance companies in the Kingdom.<br \/>\nThe Council confirmed that the <strong>state will bear the costs<\/strong> to complete treatment of any of the coronavirus infected <strong>patients who were admitted before March 13<\/strong> until they were transferred to hospitals under the Ministry of Health, with detailed medical reports in preparation for their transfer when beds are available there for them.<\/p>\n<p>The circular also spelled out the procedures of dealing with <strong>patients who do not have eligibility for treatment or insurance coverage<\/strong>. Such patients shall obtain prior approval from the Health Insurance Program and obtain health services through the operating company.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>insurance companies shall have to cover all expenses<\/strong> resulting from suspected and confirmed cases of coronavirus infection for health insurance beneficiaries within the limits of medical insurance document.<\/p>\n<p><em>More details are listed out in the complete news article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/saudigazette.com.sa\/article\/618233\">the Saudi Gazette.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about Egypt&#8217;s social health protection and universal health coverage? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><sup>Image: Source article<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Health Insurance (Dhaman) announced that the state will no longer bear the treatment costs of COVID-19 patients in the private sector facilities. Dhaman notified this through a circular sent to all the approved healthcare service providers and the qualified health insurance companies in the Kingdom. The Council confirmed that the state will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987527470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,130],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987525703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987527470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987525703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987525703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987525703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}